WRECK OF THE PANDORA. 53 
compelled to navigate 1,000 miles in open 
boats. 
Just before the Pandora went down, Hey- 
wood and some other prisoners were able to 
disengage their hands and feet from the irons 
with which they had been fastened ; the key 
of the chains having been providentially 
dropped through the scuttle into their prison, 
which was, at the time, fast filling with water. 
The master-at-arms, who, whether by de- 
sign or accident, had dropped the key, was 
drowned, with thirty of the ship's company, 
and four of the unhappy prisoners. These 
four, Stewart, Sumner, Skinner, and Hill- 
brant, sunk in their irons. 
Young Heywood seized a plank, and was 
swimming towards a small sandy quay about 
three miles off, when a boat took him up, and 
conveyed him thither. He sent home to his 
dear sister Nessy, from the ship Hector, in 
which he was afterwards confined as a pri- 
soner, in July, 1792, two clever little sketches, 
which are in existence, being within a cir- 
cumference not larger than that of an ordinary 
watch-paper. The one represents the Pan- 
dora sinking, as he must have caught a view 
